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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Fair enough. It's lose-lose for cops, now and always has been. It's just nowadays, everyone has a camera on the phone, or a video camera on their phone, and anything that looks remotely like police brutality is being displayed on the internet, and message board goers are immediately proclaiming that the police are the bad guys. I'm not referring to you, just a general statement.
They either let some deranged lunatic run around like a chicken with its head cut off, or they subdue him and look like criminals.
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There are also message board goers who immediately claim that the police are not the bad guys.
It is too early to defend or crucify them because we weren't there, so we don't know if they followed proper police protocol for whatever the actual situation they faced was. Some people sure are certain that they did follow the proper protocol, and maybe some are certain they didn't, yet we have all read the same article in which it seems to me there is not enough information to reach either conclusion.
What I do know is that the Vancouver police has been under a lot of scrutiny lately for civilian deaths (four in August alone--including the man who was shot multiple times by police on Granville St), and here is another one. Freak accident, or breach of protocol indicating a bigger problem?